§ 30-4. Authority of city personnel.

The city manager and DPW director and/or their designees shall have the following authority and all others outlined by ordinance:

(1)

The DPW director or designee shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing of water supply piping and appurtenances, sanitary sewer piping and appurtenances, storm drain piping and appurtenances, and combined sewer piping and appurtenances, and installing water meters and addressable read devices, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The director or designee shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers, storm sewers, waterways or facilities for waste treatment.

(2)

While performing any necessary work on private properties as set out in this chapter, the director or designee shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the city employees and the city shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by city employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required by this chapter.

(3)

The director and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage and/or waterworks lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms and duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.

(4)

The contractor installing sewer, storm drain, or water pipes and appurtenances shall give reasonable notice, as determined by the director, for the need for inspection of installed sewer, storm drain and water pipes and appurtenances prior to covering up any work.

(5)

The director shall set and collect reasonable charges for providing inspection of sewer, storm drain and waterworks covered under these regulations and applicable state and federal laws, including but not limited to cross connection control surveys. The director may require that an applicant for sewer, storm drain and/or water service pay the cost of providing full-time inspection of the sewer, storm drain and waterworks installed as a result of approval of such application by the director.

(Code 1994, § 6-2; Ord. of 10-19-2009)